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Yeah, this was one of the eyebrow raisers in the article. The other was a load average of 0.6 being "high". For what it's worth, autovacuum can be enabled/dis
by getsat 12y ago
Yeah, this was one of the eyebrow raisers in the article. The other was a load average of 0.6 being "high".
For what it's worth, autovacuum can be enabled/disabled on a per table basis, too. Some tables need frequent vacuuming, others less frequent, and others none at all. If you manually VACUUM a table, don't forget to also ANALYZE it!
- jacquesm 12y agoHigh relative to the traffic. I could probably bring that down much further but it's pointless.
- getsat 12y agoOkay, that makes more sense. The number in isolation seemed odd.
- tarblog 12y agoCan you tell me what load is measured in? I didn't find units anywhere in the article.
- njs12345 12y agoIt's a little complicated - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_(computing)#Unix-style_load_calculation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_(computing)#Unix-style_lo... Essentially, if (Load average / number of CPUs) > 1 (for CPU bound work) then your system is overloaded.